Mr Carlos Cobiella

Carlos Cobiella graduated from Medical School at the Universidad Autónoma in Madrid and completed his Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery training at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. He became interested in Shoulder and Elbow Surgery and had further training in this area under the care of Messrs Bayley, Calvert and Lambert at the Shoulder and Elbow Unit at the RNOH and Professor Birch at the Peripheral Nerve Injury.

He was appointed as Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Whittington Hospital in 2003 and then moved to UCLH in 2005 to pursue his career in a more academic environment. He there had the opportunity to develop the Upper Limb Service.

He is Honorary Consultant Shoulder & Elbow and Sports Surgeon at University College London Hospitals NHS Trust. He is founding member of The Shoulder Practice, Head of the Upper Limb Section of the Institute of Sports, Exercise and Health at UCL. He collaborates closely with the English Institute of Sport, UK Athletics, the British Olympic Association and professional sports teams. He was part of the medical team at the London 2012 Olympics and is the NFL Upper Limb Surgeon in Europe.

He enjoys all aspects of Shoulder and Elbow surgery, including the treatment of Sports injuries, rotator cuff disease and fractures. He has a keen interest in arthroscopic techniques.

He is a member of international study groups developing new techniques and is regular faculty in numerous courses in Arthroscopic and Sports Injury Surgery, both national and international. As well as training medical students and junior doctors, he directly supervises the training of the UCH Shoulder and Elbow Fellow. He is convenor for the London Shoulder Meeting, continues to publish in his field and presents his results regularly at scientific meeting